How are Ubiquity routers?

[Compman55]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...0XP-000A-00001

This looks very interesting for the price. Would this be good for home use?

 

[JackMDS]

I doubt that it will provide you anything for the additional cost.

 

[aigomorla]

this is NOT a plug and play router like you use at home.

look on youtube on how to configure one.
If you know networking, know how to configure a enterprise class firewall router, then yes they are fairly excellent.

If you think this is like a netgear router... be prepared to spend hours trying to configure it, unless u know networking.

 

[ccbadd]

If you take the time to learn how to set one up you will forget you have it. Once configured it will be much more reliable than any of the consumer WiFi routers out there. By the way, with the newest firmware, they have a wizard you can run that will give you a good working basic config comparable to what you get with the standard consumer WiFi router in just a few minutes.

 

[Compman55]

That is why I was looking. I find consumer grade stuff lasts about 1-2 yrs for me, then they bug out. My BEFSX41 is aging, and looking for a good replacement once I ditch DSL and go with cable.

 

[JackMDS]

Whatever is in the above posts is true but it is Not some sort of Magical general general truth.

There are hundreds of Routers out there some, of them are "Bad".

Most are OK depending on the circumstances and the need of the users.

Given an average user that needs Wire and wireless connections, have few devices on the Network, and does not run 24/7 servers, torrent connection, half a dozen security cameras, and 10 people streaming from the Internet in the same time.

The wire only Router in the OP is a total waste of money.

May be the OP needs a Router like the the above .

However the OP only "Big Technological" comment was - "Would this be good for home use"?

With all due respect it is becoming the problem of most online forums. Many user think that "Good" Bad" and other words that are very good for poetry are technological Variables.

 

[ccbadd]

JackMDS, I don't think you are making any sense. The OP asked if the router would be good for home use, not if it is magical or the only viable router.

I do think your comment on the wired only router to be a little absurd. As if only WiFi routers are not a waste of money? You could pair this with a couple of UniFi AP's and spend close to what people are spending on just a WiFi router these days. I would wager you that this would beat the pants off whatever router you are supporting.

As far as network traffic goes, quite of few of us have much more heavily used home networks than your average small business often with a couple dozen devices online at once including online gaming, bit-torrents and possibly multiple streaming videos. All simultaneously and the router in the OP will handle this scenario better than most consumer wireless routers, in my opinion as I don't have numbers to back it up.

 

[Compman55]

With this so called "wizard" could I at least get it up and running in a home environment, then tweak as I learn?

I am looking to get everything up and running, then configure a VPN that is stable. Residential stuff I find does not work well with VPN.

 

[kevnich2]

It's a good router but definitely meant for the "pro-sumer" They do have a wizard that will give you a general working system and anything beyond that, you will need to do research to figure out. It is definitely not a plug and play system and not something I would recommend for a home user that just wants to plug in their cables and have internet. Unless you have a specific need for the routing capabilities, the speed, etc of this unit, I would say you're looking at the wrong product.

If however, you want something beyond the typical home router and want to learn how the command line works and want something VERY reliable and fast that will handle over a million packets per second, by all means go for it. The price is definitely reasonable and the sky's the limit to how it can be configured. Google vyetta as that's what it's based off of.

 

[Compman55]

Took the plunge. Do you guys think there is enough info on the web for me to stumble thru it? Worst case is $100 down the drain. Everyone raves about ubiquity as a whole for making awsome stuff.

I will not tolerate the residential crap any longer. I am on my 4th BEFSX41 router, and about my 6th 8 port switch. About 2 of each were before I got an APC battery UPS. Its just poor quality to blame. Usually a total failure was rare, but the flakyness needing to reset all the time, and certain ports would go dead was the typical failure I have experianced.

 

[kevnich2]

Well a BEFSX41 router was a bad router 10 years ago....they have much higher quality consumer router's than that. I sure hope you have some kind of network training in that you can use command land network commands similar to cisco or else you're going to be in for a rude awakening.

 

[JackMDS]

Well a BEFSX41 router was a bad router 10 years ago....they have much higher quality consumer router's than that.

You are kind calling it Bad. - :sneaky:.

Adjust for early capabilities of Internet connections and level of consumer usage, there was good Routers that days too (SMC for example, and later on Buffalo).

Linksys simply had a better USA promoter than the others. Even the WRT54G was less than Mediocre, what made it shine was the Independent DD-WRT firmware (which Linksys fought hard against in the first few years).

 

[ch33zw1z]

Took the plunge. Do you guys think there is enough info on the web for me to stumble thru it? Worst case is $100 down the drain. Everyone raves about ubiquity as a whole for making awsome stuff.

I will not tolerate the residential crap any longer. I am on my 4th BEFSX41 router, and about my 6th 8 port switch. About 2 of each were before I got an APC battery UPS. Its just poor quality to blame. Usually a total failure was rare, but the flakyness needing to reset all the time, and certain ports would go dead was the typical failure I have experianced.

srsly, if you want to get rid of it just pm me.

If I recall correctly, I had a BEFSX41 back in the day, and it sucked.

 

[aigomorla]

Took the plunge. Do you guys think there is enough info on the web for me to stumble thru it? Worst case is $100 down the drain. Everyone raves about ubiquity as a whole for making awsome stuff.

there is a lot of videos on youtube on how to configure one for general use.

at worst you'll probably need to flip though serveral videos to fill in the gaps.

But i expect it shouldnt take longer then 1-2 hours at most for you to configure it.

Once its setup tho, it wont go down like a typical netgear router will.
However, once you played with it, you'll realize its better to build your own for a little more, and install something like Pfsense / Smoothwall, as you can make it more powerful (Greed is strong), with servicable parts incase it ever dies, and not have to change the entire unit all together.

 

[Compman55]

Well wish me luck. Package arrived SAT and I will be playing with it this week. Hopefully I can do everything using the wizard and new firmware. Would like to avoid the CLI if I can as I am not a networking person. What I am also finding is that computer stores don;t know anything either, so I would have to locate a professional somewhere and hopefully they would work on the side.

My main goal is just to have 100% stable internet that you do not have to power cycle and diagnose dead / flake ports.

 

[ch33zw1z]

quite a few SOHO routers out there will give you stable internet.

 

[cubby1223]

I've worked with computer hardware my whole life, do support work for many individuals and small businesses.

Some time ago I bought a Mikrotik wireless router based on someone here claiming it had insane connection ranges. And I work for some places where that could be of great use.

But it sits on the shelf doing nothing. I went through the initial setup, through the wizard to test it out. Beyond that it didn't provide any tangible improvement over the Asus router I have, to justify diving into the complexity of the configuration. Wasted money.

What if you want to do something a little more than "base router functionality"? Have it handle dynamic dns? Forward a port? Static DHCP? Guest wireless access? And if you set something incorrectly how are you going to search through and correct it?

 

[cubby1223]

Everyone raves about ubiquity as a whole for making awsome stuff.

The Unifi Access Points are raved about.

 

[cubby1223]

One business I began working for because their previous IT support company convinced them to buy a Cisco ASA router then spent an entire month trying to configure it for the company's needs and couldn't get it figured out.

I came in with a Cisco rv series router, got them fully set up in a couple hours and it's been rock stable for going on 15 months.

Advanced routers are not recommended for a novice.

 

[Compman55]

Well I ran the wizard and it found internet and the 2 lans, but will not communicate with the internet. there are no TX packets.

Its as if the router will not talk to the modem. It is very simple the modem hands out 192.168.1.46 statically, and I have the router set to DHCP. It shows connected, but does not appear to reach the outside world.

 

[VirtualLarry]

TI will not tolerate the residential crap any longer. I am on my 4th BEFSX41 router, and about my 6th 8 port switch. About 2 of each were before I got an APC battery UPS. Its just poor quality to blame. Usually a total failure was rare, but the flakyness needing to reset all the time, and certain ports would go dead was the typical failure I have experianced.

Hmph. How bad is the power quality where you live?

I've never had switches die that much. Then again, I try to stick to metal-casing Trendnet switches. For SOHO usage, they work well, and I've never had a problem with them, except for once after a storm, my switch (which was not with any sort of power protection) started flaking out and hanging. That's once in like five years. Of course, I had a backup switch in my closet ready to swap out. (Always keep backup hardware for "mission critical" systems. Can't have the NEF-box down for too long. )

I've had routers start to crap out on me, but it's about 50/50 whether it's really the router going, or just the power brick. I've resuscitated several, just by buying replacement power bricks (new) on ebay.

Edit: Generally, the routers last about 2-3 years before starting to flake out.

 

[zatoan]

I doubt that it will provide you anything for the additional cost.

 

[Compman55]

Well I ran the wizard and it found internet and the 2 lans, but will not communicate with the internet. there are no TX packets.

Its as if the router will not talk to the modem. It is very simple the modem hands out 192.168.1.46 statically, and I have the router set to DHCP. It shows connected, but does not appear to reach the outside world.

Any ideas on this?

 

[Railgun]

Nat/pat?

 

[Compman55]

The issue is my DSL modem is in router mode, handing out addresses in the 192.168.1.1 range. I also have eth0 setup that way as well which is the issue. But if I change eth0 port to another IP range, I can't access the config page.